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[16-Jan-2024]
DCX X01-02:   In eons past (in 1988), I wrote a program in MACRO-32 to call the DCX$ procedures to compress and expand... (82 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[09-Aug-2023]
Examples updated:   My venerable Alpha 800 was retired long ago, and I've been relying on resources at work to answer the regular... (259 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

And fixed:   The examples are working again. This is what happens to you trying to maintain a hosted web site for multiple... (94 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[08-Aug-2023]
Yes, I know the examples are broken...:   I'm working on getting my dev->website pipeline going and I've broken something. I'll figure out what it is tomorrow. Apologies... (23 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[24-Jul-2013]
PHP Caching:   How I reduced the run time of my code examples script from 5 seconds to less than half a second. (203 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[21-Feb-2013]
11th Birthday:   As of today, I've been on line for 11 years talking about my favourite operating system. Yay me. (18 words, 2 comments, 0 pings)

[06-Mar-2012]
Possible site outage:   My hosting provider has just notified me that an operating system upgrade will be occuring in the next couple of days (wish they could be more specific). If the site goes down, you now know what's happening. Time to go and ensure my backups are up-to-date... (46 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[24-Mar-2011]
Expected site outage:   At 24-Mar-2011 03:00 GMT, the site will be down for a couple of hours while some physical hardware is relocated.... (24 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[06-Apr-2007]
Naked again:   eight-cubed is again participating in the CSS Naked Day celebrations. Go, web standards! (13 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[24-Mar-2007]
PHP magic:   It struck me the other day that the method I used to hyperlink errchk.h in my code examples could be used to link names of system services and RTL routines to say, the documentation. So for your browsing enjoyment, I've just implemented that. Hope you like it. (47 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

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